Geordie Rose, founder and CTO of D-Wave, will visit LISA this Thursday. He will give a talk about D-Wave at 3 PM. Room TBD. Dr. Suzanne Gildert, an experimental physicist working on machine learning applications at D-Wave, will also visit the lab.

D-Wave is a quantum computer company based in Vancouver. They make a computer that can draw fair samples from probability distributions from which traditional computers can only approximately sample using expensive Markov chain simulations. This makes it possible to efficiently solve discrete optimization problems on D-Wave's hardware using simulated annealing. D-Wave is interested in machine learning applications that can be solved using their exciting new technology.